#1320

#1321~Aqua, is your avatar a reflection of your mood today or what?

1322. looks like Aqua is listening to a little Metallica today..

1323

TY I was like wtf?????:sw:

#1324~Glad to know I wasn't the only one confused!

1325 Maybe it is a pic of him waiting just outside the shadows ready to pounce

#1326~oooooh, Lilith, get ready! :D

921,003.... just boosting our numbers...will still take us years.

1329...*Yawns, scratches balls and ass...."Morning Sharni"

1330

sharni see my av...:p

#1331....this thread is getting long. Will it really make it to 1M posts?

#1332~"I think I can...I think I can...."

#1333

1334

I remain hopeful that we can get to 1,000,000 in a few months! :)

# 1335 :dizzy:

#1336~A "turkey" in bowling is three consecutive strikes.

#1337~The Wicked Witch of the East is the witch flattened by a house in The Wizard of Oz (just in case you'd forgotten).

#1338~Mia Farrow was on the first cover of People magazine.

#1339~A yak's milk is pink.

#1340~John Hancock has the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence.

#1341~"Puff" was the name of Dick and Jane's cat.

#1342~There are nine horizontal rows of stars on the U.S. flag.

#1343~The election of a new Pope is announced the world with white smoke.

#1344~ (Just doing my bit to help the cause...)

Marlon Brando and George C. Scott refused their best actor Oscars in the 1970s.

#1345~ (one more for now)

The Office of Strategic Services was the predecessor of the CIA.

IAKG, funny thing about OSS/CIA...
As anybody who has bothered knows, the CIA was organized AFTER WWII. However, apparently either no one has bothered to tell the English or someone didn't do their homework.....
There's a sort of radio play on CD I bought, made in the UK (by Big Finish, for those who know) set in 1938, and it's a nice story but completely RUINED by the fact they keep talking about involving the CIA, which didn't even exist! I doubt civilians would have contacted OSS either, so they likely would have been calling in the FBI, which was much more in the public imagination at the time anyway!
*sigh*

</rant>

#1346

#1347~I understand, dadaist. As a college student with innumerable hours towards a history degree, nothing would irk me more than to catch someone (movie, book, whatever) screwing up in that manner. ~sigh~

It's not as if such things aren't hard to research. The script writer just did NOT bother. And it's far far more of a put-off in an audio-only format than in something audio/visual, in my opinion, because small visual goofs in serious work are often inevitable (masking tape hiding over power outlets in "victorian london" or pac*bell pay phones in Virginia)....

#1348

Now going back through prior posts I see even MT is posting/reposting some of the same falsehoods I was complaining about. *sigh*
Looks like you guys use the same un-checked trivia.... :P

#1349

#1350

Yes, I saw that. But I've also learned my lesson and improved my sources. :)
#1351

#1352~The Amazons were the race of warriors who burned off their right breasts in Greek legend. (Ouch!)

#1353~The official language of India is Hindi.

I'm starting to wonder which books I should get out and quote from ad infinitum

#1354

#1355~Freckles appear when the sun activates your melanocytes.

#1356~In 1955, millions of kids wore Davy Crockett coonskin caps.

#1357~Just trying to keep this thread interesting in our quest for that elusive 1,000,000. :)

#1358

The programming language C was derived from, and based on, a programming language called...


wait for it...

B (authored mainly by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs).

Languages derived from C include Objective C (used by Apple in Mac OS X), C++, and Java.

Prior to standardization by the American National Standards Institute, the most popular "version" of C was "K & R C" where K&R stood for Kernighan and Ritchie, two of the developers of the language at Bell Labs.

#1359

In 1951, Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. released its first sets of baseball cards (Topps was LONG considered the king of baseball cards, and in the early 80s did other sets of cards as well (including Return of the Jedi, E.T., Garbage Pail Kids), before the sports card explosion of the mid-late 80s).

There were 104 cards, 52 with red backs, and 52 with blue backs, and were part of a playable game as well as collector's objects.

Rather than gum, they were packed with a caramel candy.

(Info from Topps Baseball Cards, a 35 year history, published in 1985).